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A new product line from Culmus project ;-)

by Maxim Iorsh

Hello everybody! I'd like to announce the new collection of fancy fonts from the Culmus project. These fonts are not included in the main package (and most of them will never be) and are available for separate download. Right now there are just two, but there will be more. Please visit the project site (http://culmus.sf.net) and enter the section "Fancy fonts" to get them. Enjoy! Best regards, Maxim.

Sept. 21, 2003

Bugfix release of Culmus fonts

by Maxim Iorsh

Hello! I have just released an updated package for Culmus fonts (0.90-2), which fixes an issue with Open Office (there were problems with display/printing of Nachlieli and Ellinia). Best regards, Maxim. P. S. I'd like to thank Shoshannah Forbes who kindly brought this bug to my attention.

Sept. 3, 2003

Version 0.90 of Culmus fonts released

by Maxim Iorsh

Dear fellows! I'm pleased to announce the new release of Culmus fonts. This release introduces a new font - Ellinia in four variations, and also adds features to the existing fonts. The fonts can be downloaded from the site of the Culmus project: http://culmus.sourceforge.net. Best regards, Maxim. P. S. I'm sorry for the jump in version number. From now on I will try to be more consistent. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Full list of changes: 1.. Ellinia family introduced with complete set of variations. 2.. Several symbols added to Caladings. 3.. Diacritics and presentation forms added to Drugulin Bold. 4.. Nachlieli family reworked to look better on non-aa desktops.

Aug. 15, 2003

Second preview release for Ellinic face

by Maxim Iorsh

Ladies and Gentlemen! The preview release of Ellinic face now features light roman, light italic and bold italic variations. You can find it in the 'Developers' section of the site (http://culmus.sourceforge.net/developers.html) Please take a look! Maxim.

July 1, 2003

Preview release for Ellinic italic face

by Maxim Iorsh

Hello, all! The second preview release of Ellinic typeface is available at the 'Developers' section of the site. This time it also includes the italic variation. You are welcome to take a look! Maxim.

June 2, 2003

Preview release for Ellinic face

by Maxim Iorsh

Hello, all! I put a preview release of new typeface named "Ellinic" at the 'Developers' section of the site. You are welcome to take a look! Maxim.

May 3, 2003

Version 0.8 of Culmus fonts released

by Maxim Iorsh

Dear fellows! I'm pleased to announce the new version of Culmus fonts. This release adds features to the existing fonts, and also introduces some new ones. The new Drugulin face is widely used in biblical typesetting, and Ktav Yad is a simple generic handwritten face. Caladings is a collection of symbols inspired by the idea of Wingdings. It is currently incomplete, and I will be glad to receive suggestions for new symbols to be included in future releases of Caladings. The fonts can be downloaded from the site of the Culmus project: http://culmus.sourceforge.net. Please enjoy the fonts, your comments and suggestions are welcome! Best regards, Maxim. P. S. Please don't attempt graphological analysis of the Ktav Yad. I deliberately removed any characteristic that could reveal the secrets of my twisted mind. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Full list of changes: 1. Ktav Yad family introduced in medium and bold weights. 2. Drugulin family introduced in bold weight, roman and italic variations. 3. Caladings dingbats font added. 4. David and Aharoni completed with extended forms (nikud, precomposed forms etc.) 5. Terminology: italic fonts renamed to oblique in Frank Ruehl, Nachlieli, Miriam Mono and Aharoni. 6. Metrics changed for Aharoni Book Oblique and Aharoni Medium Oblique. 7. Experimental masoretic glyphs added to Frank Ruehl Meduim.

March 20, 2003

Version 0.71 of Culmus fonts released

by Maxim Iorsh

Dear fellows! I'm pleased to announce the new version of Culmus fonts. As the number suggests, this is a minor release. Among the highlights there is an oblique David font and Miriam Mono family which replaces Hasida. The fonts can be downloaded from the site of the Culmus project: http://culmus.sourceforge.net. Your comments and suggestions are welcome! Best regards, Maxim. P. S. I'm not subscribed to linux-il and ivrix-discuss lists, therefore members of these lists are kindly requested to send me email directly to iorsh@...4... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Full list of changes: 1. David family expanded with a medium oblique font. 2. Hasida family discontinued in favor of Miriam Mono. 3. Cantillation marks added to Frank Ruehl. 4. Nikud metrics changed in Frank Ruehl and Nachlieli. 5. Empty character 0x00DE added to Frank Ruehl, Nachlieli and Miriam Mono. 6. Microsoft ligatures vav+holam, final kaf+qamats, final kaf+shva added to Frank Ruehl, Nachlieli and Miriam Mono at positions 0xE801-0xE803. 7. Alternative Ayin (0xFB20) redrawn in Frank Ruehl.

Nov. 10, 2002

Version 0.7 of Culmus fonts released

by Maxim Iorsh

Hello! A version 0.7 of the Culmus fonts has been released. This is the second major release. It adds two new typefaces to the collection: Aharoni and David. Aharoni comes in medium and bold weights, both roman and slanted; David comes in medium and bold weights, roman only. Both families include punctuation and numerals. Changes: -------- Couple of letters in Nachlieli have been redrawn, with no significant changes. Foundry name changed from "hebrew" to "culmus". Installation directory changed from '/usr/share/fonts/ISO-8859-8' to '/usr/share/fonts/he', to conform with ISO 639-1 language code standard. Know issues: ------------ David lacks kerning, and this causes some character pairs to look poorly. Best regards, Maxim.

Oct. 8, 2002

Version 0.6 of Culmus fonts released

by Maxim Iorsh

Hello! A version 0.6 of the Culmus fonts has been released. Changes: This is a complementary release to version 0.5. It contains the same font families, including all Hebrew-related Unicode entries except cantillation marks. Font family Dror has been renamed to Frank Ruehl to maintain consistency with common conventions. Several characters redrawn in Frank Ruehl and Nachlieli, following advice from Sivan Toledo. Implemented Unicode entries (in addition to ASCII): 0x05B0-0x05F4 (Nikud, Hebrew-specific punctuation and Yiddish digraphs), 0x20AA (NIS currency symbol) and 0xFB1D-0xFB4F (Presentation forms, including letters with dagesh). Known issues: 1. Frank-Ruehl Bold Italic looks bad at low resolutions. Hasida family looks bad at some low resolutions. Letter "Lamed" looks bad at all fonts at some low resolutions. 2. Cantillation marks (Unicode 0x0591-0x05AF) not implemented. Best regards, Maxim.

Sept. 10, 2002